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1. • Beerman
   • [size=200][color=#FF4000]The Best Gloom and Doom of 2009 Poll is now Closed.[/color][/size]
     
     The rules are the same as previous years:
     
     1. Vote for as many bands as you feel deserve the accolade Best Gloom or Doom of 2009.
     2. Try to remember who you voted for so that you don't keep voting for the same album.
     3. If you think it is Doom (or Gloom) then it is.
     4. Keep the standard high, if you'd personally give them them 10/10 or 9/10 or even 8/10 then fine, but avoid anything lower than 8/10 even if you think that's the best 2009 has to offer.
     5. Try not to waste your energies arguing if something is Doom, Gloom or not. I couldn't give a one-armed retarded monkey of Troo Doom...
     
     The aim
     
     The aim is to compile a list of great albums for the year so that we've all got a list of quality music to track down and check out for ourselves.
     
     Notes:
     
     - I've started the poll later this year as many complained last year that they couldn't understand the concept of identifying 8/10+ albums as they were released.
     
     - The winner doesn't necessarily have the best album, just the most popular one amongst Doomsters, Gloomsters and Stoomsters, which isn't a bad crowd to receive an acolade from.
     
     - If I can muster the enthusiasm votes may be harvested from Terrorizer, Ninehertz, My Dying Bride, and Doom-Metal.com, Hellridemusic and any other board I consider to be up to the underground standards of Gloom and Doom, but fan-boy idol worship will be ignored. If anyone has any suggestions of new boards to look at post away.
     
     - If you don't feel this is a worthwhile exercise then fine, but don't feel you have to repeatedly share that with me as some have done in previous years.
     
     - If you go to the '2009 Albums to Check Out' thread sticky at the top of the G&D board, link here... www.borninblood.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=6844 you'll not only see the sub-genres of many of the recommended bands but also a short review as well.
     
     Let the voting begin (waits for the sound of silence)....
     
     [color=#FFFF00]Poll results as of 31 Dec 2009[/color]
     
     [color=#FF8000]The entry level to get onto the chart now stands at 3 votes[/color]
     
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     [color=#FF8000]Scoring Order[/color]
     
     
     [color=#FF8000]A to Z[/color]
     
     
     
     [size=150]Plus the following albums have received 2 votes[/size]
     
     Aarni - Omnimantia EP
     Aguirre - Calvaire (Prog Sludge Metal)
     Amesoeurs – Amesoeurs
     Austerity - Austerity
     Autumnblaze - Perdition Diaries
     Black Boned Angel - Verdun
     Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure
     Culted - Beyond the Thunders of the Upper Deep
     Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism
     Echoes of Yul- Echoes of Yul
     Erg Noor's - Sea Journey
     Fenriz - Red Planet + Nattefrost Split
     Frailty - Frailty (EP)
     Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
     Greg(o)rian
     Hanging Garden - TEOTWAWKI
     Javelina - Beasts Among Sheep
     Keelhaul - Triumphant Return to Obscurity.
     Kowloon Walled City
     Masters of Reality - Pine/Cross Dover
     Memory Driven - Relative Obscurity
     My Lament - Broken Leaf
     Nox Aurea - Via Gnosis
     Ocean Chief - Den Forste
     Olde Crone - Olde Crone
     Our Survival Depends On Us - Painful Stories Told With A Passion For Life
     Paradise Lost - Drown in Darkness - The Early Demos
     Poema Arcanus - "Timeline Symmetry"
     Pombagira - Black Axis Abraxas
     Pylon - Doom
     Pyramido - Sand
     Revelations Of Rain - Revelations Of Rain
     Rituals of the Oak - Demo 2009
     Slough Feg - Ape Arising
     The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
     The Lamp of Thoth - Sing as you Slay
     The Mars Volta - Octahedron
     
     [size=150]Plus the following albums have received 1 vote[/size]
     
     Abandon - The Dead End
     Abstract Spirit - Tragedy And Weeds
     Across Tundras - Herds of the fathomless valley
     Aderlating - The Nectar of Perversity Springs from the Well of Repression
     Aeternum Sacris - The Beginning of the End
     Against Nature - Action at a Distance
     Against Nature - The First Rain
     Aglaomorpha & Opaque Lucidity - Fragments
     Agrimonia - Agrimonia
     Ahkmed - Distance (Light Rock Space Rock Stoner Doom).
     Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
     Anthony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
     Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
     Astra - The Weirding
     Atra Filia Demo
     Ava Inferi - Blood Of Bacchus
     Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
     Beneath Oblivion - Beneath Oblivion EP
     Bird from the Abyss - II
     Blut - This Burden
     Bong - Bong
     Bunkur - Nullify
     Burden of Grief
     Bushman's Revenge - You Lost Me at Hello
     Chickenhawk - A. Or Not
     Children Of Doom Demo
     Churches Burn - Adversary
     Cuerno - Cuerno
     Dark Castle - Spirited Migration
     David Sylvian - Manafon
     De Magia Veterum - Migdal Bave
     Depressed Mode - ...For Death
     Desire - Crowcifix
     Dictator - Dysangelist
     Dimaension X - The Doom 2 Variations
     Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance
     Dronehouse + Sabazius (Split)
     Edge Of Lament - Haoma
     Eggnogg - III
     Electric Wizard - Live at White Trash, Berlin, 2009
     Eternal Elysium - Within the Triad
     Eyes Of The Owl - Eyes Of The Owl
     Falcon - Die Wontcha
     Fall Of Efrafa - Inle
     Faustcoven - The Priests Command
     Fever Ray - Fever Ray
     Firebird - Grand Union
     Flood – Native
     Forest Stream - The Crown Of Winter
     Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power
     Fucho - Fucho
     Funeral Hag - Demo 2009
     Funeral Mist - Maranatha
     Gallery - 2009 Demo
     Gallows of Sedition - Demo
     Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
     Goat River (Demo)
     Goblin Cock - Come With Me If You Want To Live
     Green And Wood - s/t
     Grey November (Demo)
     GreyMachine - Disconnected
     Habsyll - MMVIII
     Heavy Goods Vehicle - Live in Dave's Kitchen
     IAI - Emptiness
     In Tormentata Quiete - Teatroelementale
     Ironweed - Indian Ladder
     John Zorn - Femina
     Kentucky Fried Doom - GorekrakenBongdirge
     Kodiak
     Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
     Lo Pan - Sasquanaut
     Lobo - Alma
     Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain
     Lordamor - Lordamor
     Mala Suerte-The Shadow Tradition
     Maserati - Passages
     Melvins - Live 16 May 2009 Boston
     Mike Stern - New Morning The Paris Concert 2009
     Mirthkon - Vehicle
     Mothertrucker - Dark Transmi55ions
     Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
     Mourner - Still (EP)
     Mustasch - Mustasch
     Nadja & Black Boned Angel,
     Nyctophobia - Arid
     Oak - Oak
     Obiat - Eyes Tree Pi
     Ocean of Ghosts - Loss and Numbness
     Old One - Old One
     Om - Live Conference
     Orion's void - Orion's void
     Penuria - Time Is Agony EP
     Pete Prodoehl - Navasio
     Porcupine Tree - The Incident
     Ramesses - Baptism Of The Walking Dead (EP)
     Raven's Creed - Albion Thunder
     Resonance Room - Unspoken
     Reverend Bizarre - Magick with Tears
     Rick Moore - Better Off With The Blues
     Rigor Sardonicous - Vivescere Exitium (Live Album)
     Rising of Yog-Sothoth - Tribute To Thergothon
     Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
     Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath
     Ry Cooder - I Flathead
     Sabazius - DCLXVI
     Sabazius - Devotional Songs
     Sabazius + Dronehouse - Split
     Sarke - Vorunah
     Sea of Bones - The Harvest
     Seasick Steve - Man from Another Time
     Semlah - Semlah
     Sesta Marconi - Where The Devil Dances
     Seventh Void - Heaven Is Gone
     Shining - Klagopsalmer
     Sihr - Beneath The Twelve Mile Zone
     Sixx - Sister Devil
     Skitliv - Misantropi Skandanivisk
     Snowblood - Snowblood
     Sólstafir - Köld
     Sons of Otis - Exiled
     Stardrive - Kings And Slaves
     Stinking Lizaveta -Sacrifice and Bliss
     Sun of the Blind - Skullreader
     Swamp Da Wamp - Rock This Country
     Temples - III
     The Aeonic Order Of Vacuity - Nether Demo
     The Last Supper - The Last Supper
     The Liquescent Horror - A Funeral For Things Undying
     The Mount Fuji DoomJazz Corporation - Succubus
     The Wizard of Doom - An Odyssey In The Dark (EP)
     The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
     Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
     Thergothon tribute "Rising Of Yog-Sothoth"
     This Weary Hour - No Hand to Comfort You
     Tommy McCoy & Lucky Peterson - Lay My Demons Down
     Tortured Spirit - Arkham Sanitarium
     Uptempo Blues Machine - UBM
     Vaste Burai - Vaste Burai
     Velvet Cacoon - Atropine
     Voivod - Infini
     Vom - Primative arts
     Vomir - Proanomie
     Wardruna - Gap Var Ginnunga
     White Buzz - Book Of Whyte
     Wooden Shjips - Dos
     Woods of Ypres - The Green Album (Melodic Folky Death Doom)
     Wreck of the Hesperus & De Novissimis (Split)
     Yhdarl - Drone Nightmares II - Buried Burnt Earth
     
     
     [size=200][color=#FFFF00]Voting ended New Years Eve 2009 on the 12th bong of Big Ben[/color][/size]
     [Edited by Beerman at 20:50 on 05/01/10]
   • [00:25 on 12/11/09]
2. • odoom
   • i might be wrong if any of these came out this year but i would certainly recommend:
     
     BLOODY PANDA - summon
     TEITENBLOOD - seven chalices
     EAGLE TWIN - the unkindness of crows
     PELICAN - what we all come to need
     SNOWBLOOD - s/t
     YOB - the great cessation
     
     sure they'll be more. i've been following more black metal, crust and grind this year...
   • [11:02 on 12/11/09]
3. • Donny
   • Woo! Good to see pombagira on there. Keep forgetting I actually play on that album!
   • [12:36 on 13/11/09]
4. • Beerman
   • Poll's done for another year. Sunn O))) won.
     
     Ta.
   • [23:46 on 01/01/10]

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